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What was the tulip mania phenomenon?
The Dutch tulip bulb market bubble (or tulip mania) was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some of the tulip bulbs reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637; the rarest tulip bulbs traded for as much as six times the average person's annual ...
How did tulip mania crash?
In February 1637, tulip traders could no longer find new buyers willing to pay increasingly inflated prices for their bulbs. As this realization set in, the demand for tulips collapsed, and prices plummeted—the speculative bubble burst.
What is the central idea of tulip mania?
The tulip craze was an early example of the greater fool theory—the willingness to buy an asset not because of its fundamental value but because of the belief that someone else is likely to pay an even higher price than you did.
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How much was a tulip worth during tulip mania?
The Dutch tulip bulb market bubble was one of the most famous asset bubbles and crashes of all time. At the height of the bubble, tulips sold for approximately 10,000 guilders, equal to the value of a mansion on the Amsterdam Grand Canal.
Tulip Mania is widely recognized as the first speculative bubble. The value of a tulip bulb increased at an alarming rate, much like an inflated soap bubble.
Disease, death, and despair no doubt encouraged the risky speculation in tulip bulbs. With a reduced work force, wages would have risen and workers, who ...